Chapter 148: Chapter 148

Fu Xiao said, "I also thought our chances of winning were slim, and since miasma poisoning wasn’t fatal, I just went ahead and did it. I was wrong. I apologize to everyone; I admit my guilt!"

Although his admission of guilt was sincere, he was still criticized by everyone.

"Human life is of utmost importance. It’s okay to aim for victory, but you can’t harm others."

"Lucky for us, Miss An Yan was here this time. Otherwise, if you had really delayed getting to a hospital in your condition, you probably would have died."

Fu Xiao bowed his head in shame. "I was wrong! I promise I won’t do it again!"

He seemed as earnest as could be, but An Yan knew he was lying.

The primary purpose of his participation in the show was to lead everyone to discover this cave and the jars and bottles inside. Then, naturally, everyone would think those were artifacts and logically transport them off the island! But in fact, what those containers held was drugs! Before this primary objective, he had also received orders to retrieve the ring from his neck. He had originally planned to take advantage of the heavy rain to act while being moved, but Li Tianyao’s arrival had disrupted his plan. So he resorted to the tactic of faking miasma poisoning. It was all to lead her to treat him so he could strike at her. In order not to arouse suspicion, he even pretended to be more seriously affected than anyone else, but in reality, he wasn’t poisoned at all! When An Yan bent down to administer the acupuncture, he quietly broke the necklace holding the ring. He thought An Yan hadn’t seen it, but unknowingly, this was also what An Yan had hoped for. After all, how could she draw out Gu Shifang if he didn’t get his hands on the ring?

Initially, An Yan had not associated Fu Xiao with Gu Shifang. However, when she was using her Techniques on Fu Xiao, she saw the message that he had received. Because of this, An Yan deduced that the person behind Fu Xiao was Gu Shifang! She used analysis instead of the Divination Technique to come to this conclusion because she simply couldn’t deduce anything about Gu Shifang using her Techniques. Neither her Techniques nor technological means could track the source of the messages on Fu Xiao’s cellphone.

She found it strange. When she used her Techniques on Li Tianyao, what she saw was chaos, but as the number of Yezi increased, a ray of light pierced through that chaos. This allowed her a brief glimpse of Li Tianyao. But when she applied the same method to use her Techniques on Gu Shifang, she couldn’t deduce anything at all! No matter from which angle or through which channel she tried to use her Techniques, she came up empty, as if Gu Shifang didn’t exist at all.

However, since Gu Shifang was linked to drugs, she would have to start there. Had she not known, it would have been one thing, but now that she did know, these drugs couldn’t possibly end up back in Gu Shifang’s hands. As for eliminating a public hazard, she was willing to do it.

Bai Zhi, in front of the cameras, earnestly admitted her mistakes. She said that since she had done wrong, she was willing to accept any punishment! Coupled with the mark from Jiang Xiaoze’s slap on her face, it was quite persuasive.

In any case, her fans had softened.

[Crying my eyes out! It takes courage to admit mistakes, Zhizhi, you are the best!]

[Zhizhi, don’t be sad. We believe you will get better and better.]

[In the long journey of life, who doesn’t make a few mistakes? Zhizhi, keep it up! We won’t abandon you.]

[Right. I’m willing to watch you stand under the spotlight again and win glory for our country!]

Fu Xiao also made a statement, apologizing and indicating he was also willing to accept any punishment!

Abei apologized as well, but he insisted he had only followed the normal workflow. "If you think it’s my fault, I can apologize. But honestly, in my livestream, I’m still willing to share my knowledge with everyone! Maybe some people will use this knowledge for bad things, but I believe knowledge is innocent! Thank you for your continuous support, and I hope you will continue to support me! Thank you!"

After they finished their last words—oh, I mean their statements—the director then took over. "Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes this edition of ’Escape from Desperate Island.’ Winning team: Teacher Anan’s team. Congratulations to Mo Shiyan, the superstar; Meng Rui, the cutie; and Miss An Yan. Please accept the Escape from Desperate Island commemorative badge that the production team has prepared for you, as well as a big gift pack provided by Guo Dengdeng Video! Thank you to the sponsors of this episode..."

A long list of names followed, but the Bai Family’s was conspicuously absent!

Bai Zhi bit her lip, her eyes reddening as she bowed her head, hiding the flash of resentment.

An Yan received her prize.

Just as she was about to leave the stage, the director called out to her, "Miss An Yan, King, do you want to keep it?"

"Ah, that’s this squirrel!"

An Yan hadn’t expected the Little Squirrel to have such a domineering name!

"No!" Li Tianyao answered for her.

He didn’t care what they called this little thing; his little girl wasn’t allowed to have any other critters around!

The director immediately seemed happy. "Then I’ll take it away!"

But the Little Squirrel suddenly grabbed onto the hem of An Yan’s pants and scurried into her pocket.

The Miss could detoxify it, plus she had medicine that allowed it to regain its strength, so that made her its owner! No one was going to separate it from its Miss!

The Little Squirrel stuck its head out of An Yan’s pocket and glared at the director with contempt.

This fool! He didn’t even know it was poisoned! Thinking of taking it away? Dream on!

An Yan laughed at its reaction. "Clearly, it doesn’t want to go with you, Director Feng!"

"Then forget it," the director said, his tone shifting. "This... *turtle* can stay with Miss An Yan."

Though he verbally agreed, his term for the squirrel had instantly changed from ’King’ to ’turtle’—a rather demeaning switch.

An Yan’s mouth twitched. "It’s just a little animal..."

Before she had finished speaking, a large hand reached over, picked the Little Squirrel up by the scruff of its neck from her pocket, and threw it to the director!

How dare anything try to sneak into his little girl’s pocket?

The Little Squirrel was furious. It turned around to jump back but then met Li Tianyao’s gaze. And then, it cowered.

The animal’s instincts told it: this human was not someone to mess with! But it really didn’t want to follow the director, so it leaped out from the director’s hands again and followed behind An Yan and Li Tianyao up the stairs. Just as it was about to follow them into the room, the door closed in front of its face.

Little Squirrel: "..."

If it wanted to accept this beautiful Miss as its owner, did that mean it had to make its own way every step from now on? The Little Squirrel sat at the door, tilting its head in serious thought.

An Yan happily opened her prize. The commemorative badge wasn’t much to speak of, just a simple badge. She was more interested in the big gift pack. Inside, besides Guo Dengdeng merchandise, there was also a permanent membership card for Guo Dengdeng. Another was a diamond card for live streaming on Guo Dengdeng Video. A staff member explained that with this card, the guests could live stream on Guo Dengdeng. And as long as they were live streaming, they would get a three-minute prime-time promotion on Guo Dengdeng!

An Yan didn’t know what others thought, but this was truly useful for her. She felt a big wave of Yezi flying her way!